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Southern Highlands · Sport

Sport, 1953

194 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 4 of 10

Bowls Bowral Club

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 4

Last week-end in the Club, singles championship 31 up Gallagher defeated Burrough 32-5, Honour defeated…

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Rugby League BOWRAL v CAMDEN

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 7

Last Sunday Bowral travelled to Camden to play that club in first and second grades and also the under eighteens…

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Rugby League Teams for Trials

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 1

The players selected for the North v South match to be played at Picton on Sunday are as follow:—…

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The Cricket

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 3

Bowral visited Goulburn for the cricket match in the R. S. Smith Cup competition, and an excellent game resulted,…

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Bowls Anzac Day Match

The Southern Mail · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 9

What is believed to be the first time in the history of Bowral Bowling Club an organised game between the…

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Golf Notes

The Southern Mail · Friday 8 May 1953 · page 8

Sometimes a ball will go into a shed or similar obstruction and quite a few players do not know what to do, they move two…

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Golf Notes

The Southern Mail · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 4

A ball is searched for over the stipulated time of five minutes and should therefore be deemed lost, and not in…

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Bowls Bowral Club

The Southern Mail · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 5

Despite a heavy green following the rain during last week, there was a good muster of players over the week-end and…

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Golf Schoolboys Play Well

The Southern Mail · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 4

A tournament for schoolboys and junior members of golf clubs, organised by Mr. Grant Ogilvie of Bowral High School…

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Rugby League Moss Vale Beats Bowral

The Southern Mail · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 9

On Sunday last at Loseby I ark, Bowral met Moss Vale in three grades and although the three local teams were…

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Bowls Bowral Club

The Southern Mail · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 7

Last Saturday Bowral No. 1 pennant team travelled to Sydney to take part in the semifinal match against Corrinial at…

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Rugby League Bargo Defeats Bowral

The Southern Mail · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 7

On Sunday last Bowral travelled to Bargo to play that team in the competition. On the day Bargo proved too solid…

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Golf Notes

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 5

Since the new rules came in there has been quite a lot of misunderstanding regarding the powers of a Committee…

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Rugby League Mittagong Notes

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 5

In the matches against Moss Vale last Sunday, before a large crowd of spectators, both Mittagong teams gave quite…

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Rugby Union Exhibition of Code

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 2

The Berrima District Rugby Union will be staging 40 minutes of this code at the exhibition sports meeting being held…

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Golf Bowral Country Club

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 5

The 18 holes stableford competition contested at Bowral Country Club on Saturday last resulted in a win for A. H…

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Rugby League Bowral to Play Picton

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 2

On Sunday next at Loseby Park, Bowral will meet Picton in competition games. There will be three games, Firsts,…

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Empire Day Sport Rugby League v Marist Brothers

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 4

A modified first XIII met Lavalla on Friday, winning the match 14-0. The opposing forwards were well matched, but…

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High School Sport Football First Xiii

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 4

Though beaten 13-6 by St. Anthony's, Bowral High School showed promising form in its first match of the season on…

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Rugby League

The Southern Mail · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 2

At Loseby Park on Sunday last Bowral and Picton met in their first competition game this year. Bowral's reversal of…

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